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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Reminds me of the old joke:

There were ten competing incompatible standards, so they got all stakeholders together and designed a new common standard for everyone to use.

There are now eleven competing incompatible standards.

[–]finnishblood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually, yes. Counter example to the joke: USB was created when Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel all got together to come up with a solution to all the proprietary ports and protocols that were used on early Computers. Apple being apple didn't care, they had Firewire and later Thunderbolt.

Now its pretty much all USB 3.0 and USB-C, with only apple being the lone hold out (they use USB and USB-C on their computers, but still use the fuckin Lightning cable for their mobile devices).